Carol Prusa
(USA, b. 1956)

Carol Prusa holds a Master of Fine Arts from Drake University, where she specialized in painting. She is known for her meticulous silverpoint technique, an ancient and refined grayscale technique with the silver stylus, and the use of unexpected materials from sculpted resin and fiberglass to metal leaf and LED large-scale installations. Through this precise and sophisticated method, she explores the astronomic origin of life as well as the philosophy of cosmology in her silverpoint work. Carol Prusa received a SECAC Artistic Achievement Award in 2017 and awarded for 2020 Manifest Prize. Her works have been highly regarded in historical books on Silverpoint feature. Prusa participated in 2015-2016 Miami Biennale and had exhibited in many museums and important institutions including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Boca Raton Museum, Louisiana Museum of Art and Science, etc. Her work included in excellent public and private collections, including the Perez Museum of Art, The Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Telfair Art Museum (Savannah), Spencer Museum of Art, and the Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection.

‘Complex Uncertainties: Artists in Postwar America’ Telfair Museum

Carol Prusa “Silver Linings” Solo Exhibition, Polk Museum of Art, Florida

Selected Publication of Carol Prusa, 2007-2020

Prusa investigates the space between known and unknowable, dissolution and coa-lescence - using geometry, intricacy and emergent forms to express what it feels like to be alive. Her worlds, created from erotically charged geometries, distill accounts of the chaotic interactions central to the formation of the universe. New work brings out the power of dark energy and evolves with new esthetics. In the 2015 catalogue es-say for the exhibition Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns, Bruce Weber called Carol Prusa “one of the most innovative artists working in metalpoint today.”

Heads of the Virgin and Child, 1508-10 c., Raffaello Santi da Urbino, called Raphael, Silverpoint on pink prepared paper, 14.3 x 11.1 cm, British Museum, London.


Carol Prusa “Scale the Wall” Exhibition, Bluerider ART, 2019

Carol Prusa “Infinite Cosmos”, Bluerider ART, 2016


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022 Porous Boundaires, the Schmidt Gallery,Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2021 Night Vision, Anne Norton Sculpture Garden and Museum, Palm Beach, USA
2020 Spooky Action, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 DarkLight, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2018 Carol Prusa – Silverpoint Drawing, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Dark Energy, Endicott College, Massachusetts, USA
2017 Liminal Worlds, Messiah College, Pennsylvania, USA
2017 Voids, Walls, Clusters, Filaments, Le Salon Vert, Geneva, Switzerland
2017 Thin Spaces, Art Center Sarasota, Florida, USA
2016 Infinite Cosmos, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 Cornell Art Museum, Florida, USA
2015 Overflow, Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2015 University of North Carolina, North Carolina, USA
2015 Unfathomable, Alan Avery Gallery, Georgia, USA
2014-2015 Silver Universe, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Entanglement, Sarasota Art Center, Florida, USA
2014 Fearful Symmetry, Florida Atlantic University, Zadok Gallery, Miami, USA
2013 Emergent Worlds, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Wyoming, USA
2013 Liminal Worlds, York College, Pennsylvania, USA
2012 Emergent Worlds, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Michigan, USA
2012 Optic Nerve, Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin, USA
2012 Non-equilibrium, University of Arkansas, Arkansas, USA
2010 Cosmic Fabric, EO Art Lab, Connecticut, USA
2009 Successive Approximations, University of Maine Museum of Art, Maine, USA
2009 Silver Linings, Polk Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2008 Spooky Action, Finestra Artspace, Chicago, USA
2007 Coherent Structures, Museum of Contemporary Art, Florida, USA

Selected Curated Exhibitions

2021 Tenacity, 5-person exhibition, Chautauqua Institution, New York
2020 Ossuary, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), Milwaukee, WI
2020 Miami Artists to Watch, Mitte Projects, Wynwood Arts 29, Miami, FL
2019 Portrait: Kentler in 58 Works, Kentler International Drawing Space, New York (curated by David Houston)
2019 Scale the Wall, presented large-scale projection installation “Folded Worlds” in a three person Show at the Sonshan Creative and Cultural park, Taipei, Taiway –
sponsored by Bluerider Art
2019 Kalliope, Florida State College at Jacksonville, Florida
2018 The Future of Craft Part I, Museum of Arts and Design, Columbus Circle, NYC
2018 FLAT???, Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, NYC
2018 Feminine, Alan Avery Art, Atlanta, Georgia
2018 Sacred, Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa
2018 Silver Lining, Columbus State University, Georgia
2018 Selected, Muster-Meier Gallery, Bern, Switzerland
2018 Accrochage: Group Exhibition, Le Salon Vert, Geneva, Switzerland
2018 Silver Lining; Contemporary Works in Silverpoint, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Mississippi, USA
2017 Glasstress, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2017 Looking Back, Cornell Art Museum, Florida, USA
2016 Numinous, Lisa Brintz Gallery, Florida, USA
2016 All Florida Invitational, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2016 Destinesia, Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2016 Worlds, Bascomb Museum, Western North Carolina, USA
2016 Friends, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
2015 Metalpoint, Morris Graves Museum, USA
2015 Illuminations (Curated by Adriana Herrera), Miami Biennale, Miami, Florida, USA
2015 Invitational Exhibition, American Academy, New York, USA
2015 Miscellaneous, Le Salon Vert, Geneva, Switzerland
2015 Crossing the Lines, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, New York, USA
2015 Art in the Natural World and Cultured Settings (Curated by Bernice Steinbaum), Miami, USA
2015 Encyclopedia of Fernal Affairs, originating in San Francisco and traveling to Asia, Vargas Contemporary Mus, Manila, Philippines
2014 Mixed Matrix, Tinney Contemporary, Tennessee, USA
2014 Collectors and their Collections, Jewish Museum, Miami, USA
2014 Endangered Visions, Manila, Philippines
2014 Kohler 40th Anniversary Artist in Industry Exhibition, Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin, USA
2014 Selected Artists, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Florida, USA
2014 Ossuary, Indiana University, Herron Galleries, Indiana, USA
2013 Curator Selections, Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee, USA
2013 GRAM Selects, Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Michigan, USA
2013 Standing on the Bones, University of Tennessee, Downtown Gallery, Tennessee, USA
2012 Empire of Things, University Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA
2012 Modern and Contemporary Art from the Telfair, Telfair Art Museum, Jepson Center’s Steward Gallery, Georgia, USA
2012 Winter Salon, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2012 Woman to Woman, Bakehouse Art Center, Miami, USA
2012 The Abstract Universe, Maloney Art Gallery, New Jersey, USA
2011 Summertime, Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2011 Seeing is Knowing: The Universe, Carleton College, Minnesota, USA
2011 Believe it or Not, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Florida, USA
2010 Between Here and There: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection (Curated by Peter Boswell, Senior Curator), Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
2010 Metaphysical Materiality, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
2010 Luminous Lines (Curated by Margaret Mathews-Berenson), Scripts College, California, USA

Public Collections

Arkansas Arts Center, Arkansas, USA
Appalachian State University, Catherine Smith Gallery, North Carolina, USA
Bienes Center for the Literary Art, Broward County Library, Florida, USA
Central Missouri State University, President’s Gallery, Missouri, USA
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri, USA
Drake University, Harmon Fine Arts Center, Iowa, USA
Emaar Hospitality Group, Dubai, UAE
Evansville Museum of Art and Science, Indiana, USA
Florida Atlantic University, Florida, USA
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee, USA
Iowa State University, College of Family and Consumer Sciences, Iowa, USA
Iowa State University, Margaret Sloss Women’s Center, Iowa, USA
Iowa State University, Memorial Union, Iowa, USA
Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin, USA
Kohler Company, Wisconsin, USA
Messiah College, Pennsylvania, USA
Miami Art Museum, Florida, USA
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, USA
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Florida, USA
Polk Museum of Art, Florida, USA
Telfair Museum, Savannah, Georgia, USA
University of Florida – Public Art, Wellness Center, Florida, USA
University of Florida – Public Art, NIMET Nanotechnology, USA
University of Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA
University of Oregon Special Collections, University Library, Oregon, USA
University of Wyoming Museum of Art, Wyoming, USA
U.S. Embassy, Managua, Nicaragua
Wartburg College, Iowa, USA

Selected Honors

2020 Selected for artist book to be made through IS Projects, funded by the Knight Foundation
2020 Selected for Scientific Delirium Madness; a month-long residency, public and academic forums, published blogs and articles in LEONARDO/ISAST’s journal
published by MIT Press. This unique residency is a collaborative initiative of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) and
Djerassi Resident Artists Program (6 artists and 6 scientists)
2019 Edwards Distinguished Professor in the Arts, Visiting Artist, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia
2019 Vermont Studio Program, Invited Visiting Artist (Dec. 2019)
2018 Nomination for USA Artist Fellowship
2017 Awarded SECAC Artistic Achievement Award at 2017 national conference, Columbus, Ohio, USA
2017 Nomination for USA Artist Fellowship
2016 Artist residency in glass at Berengo Foundation, Murano, Italy
2015 Nominated and selected for American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational (Received purchase award for museum collection), New York, USA
2015 Vermont Studio Program, Invited Visiting Artist/Lecturer
2014 State of Florida Artist Fellowship
2014 Southeastern College Art Conference Artist Fellowship
2013 Art OMI International Artist Residency, New York, USA
2013 Vermont Studio Program, Visiting Artist
2012 Ubertalli Award for Outstanding Artist, Palm Beach County
2012 Kohler Artist in Industry residency
2011 Scholar of the Year at the Professor rank, Florida Atlantic University
2008 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists
2008 State of Florida Artist Fellowship
2007 Howard Foundation Fellowship, Brown University, National project award

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